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Eater's Digest

Photojournalist Gary He Went to Eat in Post-ISIS Mosul

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the middle of August, approximately one month after ISIS lost control of Mosul, photojournalist Gary He travelled around Mosul to different restaurants to get a sense of the city's war-torn restaurant scene. Read Gary's piece on Eater.com Hosted by Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eater Upsell, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:03.4

I'm Amanda Cloot, Eaters Editor-in-Chief.

0:05.4

I'm joined by my co-host, Dan Janine.

0:08.0

Hi, Amanda Cloot, how are you?

0:09.6

I'm doing well, Dan.

0:10.8

Uh, to the listeners just know that we are here on the Blizzard.

0:14.0

We should say that out of all Vox media brands, Eater definitely has the highest percentage of its employees

0:19.1

in today.

0:20.1

That's true.

0:21.1

Yeah, we're real troopers.

0:22.1

Yeah, so you're welcome everyone. We love each other the most.

0:25.0

Yeah, that's what it is. Every week on the up cell, we look at a food issue, whether it's something we're covering on eater or just something we're fascinated by.

0:34.0

We speak to our own editors and outside journalists and important figures to figure out what's

0:38.2

going on in the world of food.

0:40.2

So that begs the question, what's going on this week?

0:43.0

What's going on this week?

0:44.0

Well, as you know, Dan, we published a really important piece

0:49.0

between Christmas and New Year's about the restaurant scene in Mosul, Iraq.

0:55.0

It's by our, one of our favorite contributors, Gary He.

0:58.6

He's a photojournalist who works for us on the New York site.

1:02.0

And so we thought we would have him on to talk about the peace,

1:05.0

but also just like, what is it like going to Iraq

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